Bookends with Mattea Roach

45 Episodes

1. Pasha Malla: Parodying a wellness resort with horror and humour

   Published: 08/12/2024
2. Sarah Leavitt: Illustrating grief too wide for words

   Published: 04/12/2024
3. Nalo Hopkinson: How Caribbean folktales inspired her fantastical novel, Blackheart Man

   Published: 01/12/2024
4. Leslie Jamison: Capturing Peggy Guggenheim in fiction and honouring a friend's dream

   Published: 27/11/2024
5. Teresa Wong: Illustrating her family's past — in all its ordinary and epic moments

   Published: 24/11/2024
6. Paula Hawkins: Exploring the dark side of the art world in new thriller The Blue Hour

   Published: 20/11/2024
7. Anne Fleming: Why her latest novel is a gender-bending tale of witchcraft and forbidden love

   Published: 17/11/2024
8. Eric Chacour: Exploring the power of familial expectations and forbidden love

   Published: 13/11/2024
9. Rachel Kushner: In Booker Prize finalist Creation Lake, an agent provocateur faces deep questions about how to live

   Published: 10/11/2024
10. Alan Hollinghurst: Coming of age in Britain and writing through the gay gaze

    Published: 06/11/2024
11. Fawn Parker: Blending her own grief with fiction in new novel Hi, It’s Me

    Published: 03/11/2024
12. Erica McKeen: Using horror and surrealism to explore grief, care and love in new novel Cicada Summer

    Published: 30/10/2024
13. Jeff VanderMeer: How his blockbuster Southern Reach series reflects our own fight against climate change

    Published: 27/10/2024
14. V.V. Ganeshananthan: Exploring the complexity of Sri Lanka's civil war in her prize-winning novel, Brotherless Night

    Published: 23/10/2024
15. Corinna Chong: Uncovering long buried truths against the backdrop of Alberta's Badlands

    Published: 20/10/2024
16. Jenny Heijun Wills: Sharing her journey of transracial adoption and self-discovery in her moving essay collection

    Published: 16/10/2024
17. Matt Haig: A surprise inheritance, a magical island and why he's embracing hope — in fiction and life

    Published: 13/10/2024
18. Aldona Dziedziejko: Poetic reflections on land and loss wins 2024 CBC Nonfiction Prize

    Published: 09/10/2024
19. Casey McQuiston: Celebrating queer love and joy and navigating the future of romance

    Published: 06/10/2024
20. Tanya Talaga: Searching for her great-great grandmother — a story of family, truth and survival

    Published: 29/09/2024